amanda, perhaps Moon can be from a terribly well-to-do Beacon Hill family. they all sound british on paper. as far as i'm concerned, there are far too many different flavors of americanese to call out what we would or would not say. besides, when i'm around friends who speak other flavors of english i always end up talking like them. moon couldn't help but have ernest and desmond rub off on her a bit. (see, i just said a bit.)